Economics

About this course

Economics is the study of how individuals, organisations and societies make decisions under conditions of scarcity, and what the consequences of those decisions are for welfare, distribution and growth. It is a discipline that combines careful theoretical reasoning with rigorous empirical analysis, and it addresses questions that matter profoundly: why some countries are rich and others poor, how markets fail and when governments should intervene, what drives inflation and unemployment, and how to design policies that improve human wellbeing. Economics develops a way of thinking that is analytical, precise and genuinely transferable. At the University of Surrey, this three-year full-time degree gives you a thorough grounding in both microeconomic and macroeconomic theory, alongside the mathematical and statistical methods that underpin modern economic analysis. You will study how market

Where its graduates go

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